Orinoco not recognized by MDK 10.0
 

Orinoco silver wifi card does not appear to be recognized by
MDK 10 running on a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop.

Ran cardctl ident, ifconfig and lsmod.

Any suggestions as how to get the laptop and the card
talking?
I like Gnu/Linux just trying to learn what's going on.

Thanks in advance. -------- Ray


Results files are as folloows:

cardctl ident
open_sock(): No such device

ifconfig -a
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7054 (6.8 Kb) TX bytes:7054 (6.8 Kb)

lsmod
Module Size Used by
isofs 33912 0
zlib_inflate 22656 1 isofs
DAC960 72936 0
nls_iso8859-1 3904 1
nls_cp850 4736 1
vfat 13760 1
fat 45120 1 vfat
supermount 37876 1
usb-storage 72932 1
sg 38044 0
st 38616 0
sr_mod 17028 0
sd_mod 16832 2
scsi_mod 114648 5 usb-storage,sg,st,sr_mod,sd_mod
r128 103232 26
maestro3 33832 1
soundcore 9248 2 maestro3
ac97_codec 17804 1 maestro3
af_packet 20520 0
hid 53312 0
ide-floppy 18752 0
ide-tape 34864 0
ide-cd 40548 1
cdrom 37184 2 sr_mod,ide-cd
floppy 59444 0
orinoco_cs 8936 0
ds 15364 1 orinoco_cs
pcmcia_core 68768 2 orinoco_cs,ds
orinoco 39532 1 orinoco_cs
hermes 8736 2 orinoco_cs,orinoco
intel-agp 17372 1
agpgart 31016 2 intel-agp
uhci-hcd 29104 0
usbcore 99132 5 usb-storage,hid,uhci-hcd
rtc 11576 0
ext3 110408 2
jbd 54328 1 ext3

Hi cefola,

Welcome to LQ. Check
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_...x/Orinoco.html
out first of all, a good site on the chipset for your card. The card you have has a fully open source driver as I understand it and therefore it should just be a case of installing the driver from your MDK 10.0 CD/DVD. Just do a search in the package manager for orinoco - it isnt installed by default. Then you should be able to fully access the card.
Regards
Chris

Thanks !
I'll take a look at the link as you suggested.
Also, when tried to install the drivers and
selected "orinoco" from the list, a brief message
flashes on the screen too fast to read.
Then I'm back at the list o' drivers. !?!
But, will keep trying to get this baby going !
Ray

If you cant read the output then open Konsole or whatever you use and as root type
rpm -ivh orinoco
if orinoco is the name of the package as listed in the package management tool you mentioned. It should then output whatever error it is encountering to the shell.
Cheers
Chris

Hi All:
Did some DnR (diggin' 'n' readin') and this is what I came up with.
lsmod indicates that the orinoco drives where installed properly.
An earlier post by gregt_1 listed the following commands that got my
system to rcognize my card:
modprob yenta-socket
cardmgr
ifup eth0
This got things running ! Thanks to all those who left clues for me to find.
Ray
ps: Right now I'm having a Cafe Blend and Oakmeal cookie at Panera
(FREE WiFi whoooo hoooo !!) :-)